Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate

shes a dumb character. her route shouldnt have been forced. it makes sense in context since their relationship is the entire core of the story but that doesnt excuse shitty writing. plus literally nothing actually happens in her route. seeing their relationship have closure and her stop being a bitch because she got over herself is nice but everything else is just fluff text and a giant waste of time. they could have cut out 90% of the route and the outcome would have been the exact same as long as they left the "first date" chapter in there. i mean fuck, the election doesn't even go anywhere in her route everything just goes back to the status quo. lame.

Well Yuuki was kinda stupid to right? why didnt he just stopped running for president , i mean i know he wanted to help Isara too and all.

kinda see it coming i lost interest in the middle of michiru route

Not completely, her involvement in Satsuki's route is great but I get what you mean.

It just didn't end up bothering me because of how good Satsuki's route was. Chisato's nonsense really helped highlight just how much better Satsuki was as a character, and since Hazuki was already a great character the interaction and growth between the two of them was very heartwarming. It also helped that the election actually mattered unlike some of the other routes.

Also the sisters are sexy as fuck. Seriously.

Isara's route was good too. Isara's character wasn't super interesting, but her brothers were awesome, and the drama surrounding the election and the real achievements they obtained made the route itself very satisfying.

Mifuyu's route was just kind of... dull. Seeing the Chisato/Yuuki relationship from a slightly different angle was interesting and possibly handled better than Chisato's route just because there was real emotion involved. The route itself just wasn't particularly gripping.

The reason why I though Mifuyu's angle on the thing was more interesting was because of how it directly impacted the relationships between them, and the others as well as how emotionally impactful certain scenes were. I won't say that Chisato's route was stupid, but the character was really irritating up until she got her way and remained irritating in all the other routes. Even when she got her emotional payoff and everything turned out happy ever after, it didn't really feel like an achievement.

That's because throughout the entire common route every character, all the dialogue, and the game itself are insisting that Yuuki and Chisato and meant to be together and that it's going to happen anyway. There's no real question about it, no conflict, and everyone cheerfully accepts it when it does happen. Sure, warm happy love is nice but for a story there needs to be some form of conflict to keep it interesting. Finally getting over your brother who died over a decade ago and/or deciding to eat a symbolic piece of chocolate after being a whiny bitch is not conflict or particularly emotional.

The reason why Isara, Mifuyu, Michiru, and to a lesser extent Satsuki had more emotional scenes and meaningful endings was because they had to get through some serious shit to successfully maintain their relationship and/or meet their goals. Chisato had a free pass and just had to stop being a coward about it.

Satsuki had less conflict, but also dealt with relationships between characters more. Yeah, the election drama wasn't a huge deal because in the end it was beneficial to have the "bad" stuff happen but ironing out the relationship with her sister and family was handled well.

The real unique route was Michiru's because it dealt with all sorts of things that the other routes didn't even remotely hint at. It was also the only one with a truly different election result. Most of the other routes had similar election results just with the focus policy or final position swapped around a bit.

I would argue that Michiru's route feels more like a "true" route or "canon" route than Chisato's, even though her route is focused on as the core of the game. It deals with far more topics, has more interesting and self-contained conflicts, and even rounds out the story for a lot of other characters who would have remained a mystery outside of her route. I guess how much you like that route kind of depends on how much you like Michiru though, since she's one of those divisive character types.

If I had to choose a favorite route it would definitely be Satsuki's. Partially because the two sisters are great characters (also sexy as fuck) and partially because it has a good story arc and development without the addition of "unnecessary" drama. Some of the situations in other routes felt kind of forced just for the sake of added conflict, but Satsuki's route didn't feel like that.

The next choice would be either Michiru's or Isara's, leaning toward Michiru's because they have actual challenges to surpass and goals to reach which make good use of the election backdrop contrary to Chisato's route and Mifuyu's route where the election is completely irrelevant in every way.

In the end, I'm not entirely certain the game knew whether it wanted to focus on romance or story so it has some strange, disjointed writing that didn't always match up internally. That's one of the reasons why I thought Satsuki's route was superior, because it strikes a good balance. However, Michiru's route shows that they were absolutely capable of writing good story and drama so it makes me wonder why Chisato's route, the main route, was flubbed so hard. Maybe her story would have been more interesting if the character wasn't a complete turn-off that made me not give a shit about her circumstances at all. I mean come on, she actively interferes with basically everything in the VN... including interacting with other characters which is one of the core components of a VN.

as long as you use the "start" link in the folder, if you click yes when it pops up then the game will finish launching. however this prompt will pop up every time.

Sincere apologies for not having a better idea

If you have done that and it couldn't start, you must have done something wrong related to the files. Or else, all should be fine. English patch launch once and make sure you restarted after the regional reset.

1. Change system locale to japan
2. Extract the file
3. Click the file 'start'
4. Enjoy.

Go "Start" on Windows, type in "regions" in the search bar and enter the only suggestion shown. Once in, go to the "Administrative" tab and change the "Language for non-Unicode programs" current language to Japanese. With that it will require you to restart the computer to apply the updates, do that and re-launch the game. Done!
Enjoy your new game!

Ah snap! Sorry, the eyeglasses tricks me.

Wine will get some vns working for you on mac.
I can't get this one to work though..:(

Actually the iso isnt working right on all 5 of my test platforms. The mdf file that I started with is so thats what I would give anyone.